Archive – Letters to the editor

This letter to the editor refers to the editorial of the Newsletter dated to November 17, 2011. It deals with museums, collectors and the reasons, why collectors should not donate collections to museums any more...
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Shall collectors donate their collections to museums? Within the last issue we heard some arguments against it. Here are three more letters in favor of leaving coins to public coin cabinets...
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What’s the duty of a journalist? It’s information, but we feel that another major task is making readers think about our world and its self-evidences. To reach this aim, journalism has many possibilities. One of them is a slight form of deliberate provocation. We thought it’s not self-evident that an ancient Greek coin is worth $ 3.25 million. And here is, what our readers thought...
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